Aizawa noted that most of the students who had been eliminated by Midoriya were still in the stadium, watching from the stands. He suspected that most of them were either salty that they had underestimated Midoriya and had been eliminated by him, or they were curious to see how a quirkless student would perform in the exam.
"Ahh... we missed the first portion..."
Aizawa looked up at the familiar voice, spotting a blonde with cyan eyes, as well as a familiar man wearing a grey suit with a polka dotted tie and a blue skinned female.
"Hello, Nighteye, Bubble Girl, Lemillion." Aizawa dryly greeted, as Togata smiled, waving at Aizawa, "Aizawa-sensei! Hi!"
"Aizawa. And Ms Joke." Sasaki nodded.
"You guys aren't teachers or anything." Fukukado noted, "What are you guys doing here?"
"I heard from Orca that the second part of the exam was based off the Kamino Incident, and that Midoriya Izuku was one of the examinees in his location. I wanted to see how he would tackle this." Sasaki stated.
"Who's taking care of the agency?" Aizawa asked, and Awata smiled, "Oh, Centipede is! He wanted to come as well, but he didn't finish all his paperwork so he's stuck in the agency."
"So... who passed?" Togata asked, and Fukukado replied, "As far as I know, all the UA students and my students passed. Also, your fly is down, Lemillion."
"Eh? It is?" Togata naively replied in a panic, and quickly looked down to check, and Awate facepalmed as Togata sighed in relief, "Whew... it isn't."
"I don't think curiosity is the only reason you came, though." Aizawa glanced at Sasaki as the hero pushed up his glasses, "The provisional license exam occurs in three locations, and the mock boss villains in each location are Gang Orca, Kamui Woods and Shishido. We haven't had a new official Hero Billboard ranking since the loss of the Symbol of Peace, but the one with the highest ranking since the last Hero Billboard Chart JP is Gang Orca. I had a bad feeling about this exam... that may be the reason why."
"Maybe." Aizawa narrowed his eyes, "Midoriya mentioned that he had a feeling that Toga Himiko is around here somewhere... it may be connected."
"Well... we'll just have to be on the lookout." Fukukado grinned, "Anyways, relax! What's the worst that could happen?"
Midoriya stared at the ceramic knife in his hands, admiring the sharpness of the blade as he ran his finger along the edge gently, careful not to cut himself.
It wasn't that easy; his hands were trembling slightly. He had been rash and expended too much energy in the first round, and he still hadn't completely recovered from the Kamino Incident, or the attack on UA; he still had scars that throbbed if he pushed himself too much. Given all the accumulated nerve damage he had received in such a short period of time, he didn't really expect that he could fully recover from it anymore.
But it didn't matter. If he had to get hurt to protect his classmates, then he would gladly get hurt. They mattered more than him.
Midoriya pulled the dragon pendant out from under his hoodie, rubbing his fingers along the smooth surface of the rock. He tried to recall the good times he had with his parents, especially that one year when he was with both his father and his mother, trying to use them to push out all the bad memories.
He clenched his fist, wrapping his fingers around the dragon, when suddenly, a white paper cup filled with water appeared in his field of vision.
Midoriya blinked in confusion, and looked upwards, seeing Shinsou holding the cup, as well as a plate with some snacks.
He smiled, "Need a drink, Izuku?"
Midoriya placed the ceramic knife back into its holder and slipped the pendant back under his hoodie, before gingerly taking the cup from Shinsou. He examined it warily, before taking a small sip. It seemed like just normal water, and he really didn't want to think that Shinsou would do anything to the water.
His heart wanted him to trust Shinsou, but somewhere at the back of his head, something told him that it just wasn't logical to trust anyone anymore.
Midoriya took another sip of water as Shinsou settled down beside him, putting a small black and white sandwich-looking biscuit in his mouth, before offering his plate to Midoriya, "Want one?"
Midoriya shook his head and focused on his water. He needed to focus, he had been distracted by the thought that Toga was somewhere in the near vicinity, and one small electric shock had sent him into a panicked rampage that made him expend much more energy than necessary.
Most of 1-A was with them, either chatting, resting, or just eating some snacks while they waited for the next segment to finish.
"Hi!" He heard the sound of several students getting closer, and he could feel that familiar, irritating presence of the Ketsubutsu student.
Shindo stopped in front of the group, and smiled widely, "So, you all passed! That's awesome!"
For some reason, the praise to 1-A seemed more genuine instead of fake. That was just confusing.
"Yep! I see that all the Ketsubutsu students passed too!" Kaminari grinned, "You guys are awesome too!"
Ashido pointed to the corner, where the Shiketsu students were standing and resting, "I see Shiketsu too! Though the one with purple hair isn't here..."
"Mina, pointing is rude..." Jiro lightly berated.
Mora seemed to have noticed that Ashido was pointing at them, and the Shiketsu students walked over to them. Yoarashi was glaring at Todoroki with disdain for some reason; Midoriya wasn't really too sure what was going on anymore.
Suddenly, a tingle ran down his spine, and Midoriya tensed up. It took all his willpower not to crush the paper cup in his hands; there was still water in it, and if he did so, he would be wasting water.
She was somewhere in the room.
He hastily finished up the water in his cup as Shindo started chatting with Sero, Kirishima and Kaminari. Utsushimi seemed to get along well with Nakagame, Ashido and Hagakure, while Yoarashi was being annoying and talking so loudly that Midoriya wanted to rip his own ears out just so that he didn't have to hear his ridiculously loud voice.
"Hey... is he okay?" Toteki quietly whispered to Iida, "I haven't seen him say a single word this entire time."
Iida glanced at Midoriya worriedly, before trying to get Toteki's attention off Midoriya, knowing that the boy would not enjoy the attention, "He's fine. He's usually quiet; he's probably trying to focus for the next segment."
"Okay, a hundred have passed. We're done with the first round. One minute for you to settle down, and then we'll explain the next part. All of you who passed, watch this."
Midoriya glanced up in confusion, as the televisions in the room blared to life. The screens displayed several buildings, and some of the students were starting to get confused as to what was going on. Suddenly, buildings started exploding at random, rock formations started falling apart, as the field they once battled on fell into ruins.
"Why!? What is going on!?"
"The next test will be the last one. We will have you all perform rescue exercises as bystanders in this disaster site. We will assume that those who have passed the first test have received your provisional licences and test how well you can carry out suitable rescue procedures."
"There's people out there!?"
"Elderly and children!?"
"What are they doing there?! It's dangerous!"
"They are people who have undergone training to be professional people in need of rescue and are high in demand right now. The "Help Us Company", or "HUC" for short. They have dressed up as injured victims and are on standby throughout the disaster site. We will now have you carry out the rescue. In addition, we will score your rescue based on points and if you have more points than the benchmark at the end of the test, then you pass. We will start in ten minutes, so please use the restroom and take care of any other business before we start."
Suddenly, there was the sound of a sharp intake of breath, and the sharp sound of paper crumpling. Everyone turned around startled, only to see that Midoriya was frozen where he sat, his emerald eyes glued intently on the screens as the buildings shook and crumbled. The empty paper cup was crumpled in his hand as he clenched his fist tightly, his arm shaking.
No... what is this? This is Kamino... right?
The familiar rumble of buildings filled his mind, as memories of a building falling all around him and his classmates filled his mind, as clear as the time it had happened.
What's going on?
Didn't I... didn't we...
It can't be...
Stupid, worthless Deku. Wallowing in your memories... How pathetic.
"Izuku? Are you okay?" Shinsou asked, leaning over to check on Midoriya. He still didn't make a single sound, but one look into his eyes revealed just how terrified Midoriya was. His emerald orbs were filled with pain, fear, panic, terror; that was the first time he had ever seen so much emotion being expressed by the green haired boy, but it was just painful to see just how much pain he was holding inside of him.
Memories... just memories...
We're just having the license exam... it's not real... this isn't real... Focus...
Midoriya closed his eyes and reached up, gripping the dragon pendant through his hoodie, and exhaled, his grip on the paper cup loosening slightly.
He opened his eyes, and noticed his classmates staring at him.
"Midoriya? You doing okay there, buddy?" Sero asked. Midoriya seemed to have calmed down, and he had loosened his grip on both his pendant and the cup.
The green haired boy glanced at Sero, and nodded, before signing, "It has to be a simulation of Kamino."
Shinsou's eyes widened in understanding, "Oh... A Kamino simulation... it's no wonder you were shaken up over it."
Iida frowned, "But the Kamino Incident was dangerous. Are you sure that they would use it to test us?"
"It's the only explanation. The Kamino Incident was one of the most important recent events, leading to the fall of All Might and the capture of one of Japan's most wanted and strongest villains. All for One and All Might's battle caused the destruction of many buildings, trapping civilians underneath all the rubble. We're supposed to save people trapped during the destruction of such an event... It only makes sense."
Most of the Shiketsu and Ketsubutsu students roughly understood what Midoriya was signing, but they found something... a little off. Midoriya seemed way too calm talking, or rather, signing about a huge event like that. He did seem to have a panic attack just prior, but he had gotten over that ridiculously quickly and was already starting to analyze the situation at hand. It just wasn't natural, but the UA students didn't seem to notice how odd it was as Shinsou translated everything for 1-A, and Sero mumbled, "So... it doesn't seem that bad though... we just have to rescue people."
Midoriya shook his head, "It's not going to be that easy. We're most likely going to have to fight mock villains as well. On its own, rescuing or fighting is already challenging, both of them together would make the difficulty increase exponentially. And that's exactly what happened in Kamino; rescuing civilians while fending off the League of Villains. They'll want us to strike a balance."
"So..." Kaminari asked, after Shinsou finished yet another translation, "Does anyone have a plan?"
Midoriya glanced at Yoarashi and Todoroki, who were subtly glaring at each other when they thought the other wasn't looking. Those two needed to get along with each other, not only did they both have powerful quirks, but if they combined their powers, they would practically have pyrokinetic powers with Todoroki's ability to create fire and Yoarashi's ability to control the fire with his wind powers.
But that could wait.
Yaoyorozu pointed to one of the screens, "There's an open area there where we can access all the different areas from there, so we should set up a first aid station or something. Since we have to rescue people, we should assume that they have injuries."
"Very well." Mora noted, "I can clear the area, and we'll set up a station. We should also spread out, and try to rescue as many people as fast as possible."
A loud bell rang, interrupting the ongoing conversations.
"Villains have begun a large scale terrorist attack! This is occurring in all areas of Blah Blah City. Due to buildings collapsing, there are many injured. Due to heavily damaged roads, the first group of rescue workers have been delayed. Until they arrive, the heroes in the area will lead the rescue efforts. Save as many lives as you can. Well then, start."
It didn't take long for the room they were in to open up, and Mora promptly cleared the area with his quirk, and Shindo, Nakagame, and Toteki promptly started to set up a first aid station.
"I hear a child!" Shoji yelled, pointing towards some buildings, directing Shinsou, Iida and Midoriya over to check on it, with several others trailing behind.
"Help! My grandpa is trapped!"
They carefully picked their way through the rubble, and carefully made their way towards the wailing boy, not wanting to make the uneven footing even more unstable.
"Okay, calm down. Everything is alright." Iida tried to soften his tone, "Are you injured anywhere?"
"He has a head injury… and his breathing is... weird? I can't really tell... to be honest..." Shinsou muttered, picking up the boy.
"Minus points!" The boy yelled, "You can't say something like that to us! Heroes are supposed to know what to do, especially during an event like this! Saying that you don't know wouldn't help reassure victims!"
Midoriya could feel himself feeling extremely annoyed, but promptly pushed it away. These HUC members weren't really injured, and even though they were trying their best to pretend that they were, Midoriya couldn't help but just see through their facade and deceptions.
They were really just perfectly healthy people with red paint splattered on them. His judgement was completely screwed over because everything was fake.
He couldn't do this. He just couldn't force himself to believe what was fake.
"Anyways, we need to bring him to the first aid station. Izuku, do you think you can do that? You're the fastest amongst us while taking the instability of the ground into account." Iida stated, and Midoriya nodded, carefully carrying the boy on his back. He didn't like the situation, nor did he like physical contact with anyone he wasn't even familiar with, but he'd just have to suck it up for now if they wanted to pass.
"Jiro, Shoji! Check the area! Uraraka, once you locate him, try and lift the rubble with Yaoyorozu's help!" Iida ordered, and Midoriya promptly made his way to the first aid station.
With some pointers from the HUC members, the process was going along a lot smoother, as rescues from all over the arena became more and more frequent. But Midoriya continued to refuse to make his own decisions, opting to let others take charge and just follow along if someone told him to do something.
Shoji had identified another faux victim, and Shinsou and Midoriya set out to find them. They found a man lying under a precarious pile of rubble that looked like it was about to fall any second, and Shinsou blanched, "We need to get him out of there, fast."
Suddenly, there was a loud crash coming from the other side, as the pile of rubble shifted and came crashing down, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.
"Look out!" Shinsou yelped, as Midoriya felt his body react, quickly running over and sliding under the pile of falling rubble, pushing the man to safety.
"Minus points!" came a shout from the other side, "What if someone was trapped on the other side! You could have crushed them!"
Shinsou coughed, and tried to look around as the dust slowly cleared. The HUC member had been pushed out of the way just in time, but Midoriya currently had his leg pinned to the ground by all the rubble, and was trying to free himself.
"Shit... Midoriya? Are you okay?" Shinsou asked worried, trying to see if there was a good way to save Midoriya without dislodging any rubble, before he spotted Uraraka and Koda out of the corner of his eye, "Ochako! Koji! Can you guys come over for a second?"
Uraraka and Koda quickly turned at the sound of Shinsou's voice, before quickly making their way to his side.
"Can you make the rubble lighter so we can get Izuku out of here?" Shinsou asked, and Uraraka nodded, before promptly activating her quirk on the rubble. Koda easily lifted all the rubble up, allowing Shinsou to pull Midoriya out from under the rubble.
Shinsou carefully rolled up Midoriya's pants leg, as the green haired boy stared at his foot that was pointing in the wrong direction.
"It's broken." Shinsou muttered, and Midoriya rolled his eyes.
No shit.
Midoriya reached over to the side, grabbing two sturdy pieces of metal rebar, and pulled it over. He quickly rightened his leg, and placed the rebar next to his leg, before undoing the cloth around his arms and wrapping his leg and the rebar up tightly.
Deciding that his makeshift splint was good enough, Midoriya pulled his pants leg back down, over his leg, and stood up experimentally.
The HUC member stared at Midoriya as Koda picked him up, because the green haired kid had just fixed his own broken leg, and was walking around on the makeshift splint with no trouble at all.
This kid's a monster...
Most of the fake victims were rescued, and all they had to do was to pick up the stragglers who were in odd places. Some of the students had gone off to start searching for them, as Midoriya looked at all the rescued people at the first aid station, trying to do a mental headcount. He was surveying the area; his makeshift split was working perfectly fine, but Shinsou, Uraraka and Koda insisted that he stay at the first aid station so he wouldn't make his broken leg worse.
But he was getting an uneasy feeling. A burning fire in his gut that wanted to burst out, twisting and turning like an agitated dragon, the familiar sense of foreboding he felt whenever something went wrong.
Something was going to happen.
All the HUC members at the first aid stand were just being incredibly annoying, from his point of view, pretending to have injuries that they didn't. It was all acting for the exam, sure, but Midoriya just hated the idea of being fooled. Midoriya looked around, his eyes falling on a building that was still somewhat intact, as the feeling in his gut grew stronger.
Midoriya raised his hands, catching Shindo's attention, before signing something. Shindo quickly processed Midoriya's signing, before frowning, "You want to move the first aid station?"
"Yes." Midoriya replied, "Something's going to happen close to those buildings over there. The villains, most likely. We need to move the station."
Midoriya pointed to a building, but Shindo wasn't too sure whether he wanted to trust the green haired boy's judgement. Sure, there may be a bad feeling, but without any concrete proof, moving the station would just be a waste of time.
"Midoriya's instincts have never been wrong before."
He remembered what Aizawa had stated before the exam, and sighed, "Alright." Shindo promptly turned around, and started hollering at the examinees in their vicinity, "Guys! We're moving the station that way! Let's go!"
The HUC members would have deducted points from Shindo for hollering, and from Midoriya for signing since there was absolutely no reason to do so, especially since he wasn't mute, but they were too busy looking at each other; they did understand what Midoriya had signed, and they were utterly confused.
He knew that there was going to be villains!?
It didn't take them too long to start the move of the first aid station, when suddenly, there was a huge explosion, right from the building that Midoriya had pointed at.
"Explosions!?"
"What's going on!?"
"What is this?!"
"There has been a large scale terrorist attack by villains!"
"There!" Someone quickly pointed out Sakamata, who stood at the top of the building, and Shindo demanded, "How the heck did you manage to predict this!?"
"Villains have appeared and have started their pursuit. Hero candidates at the scene should continue their rescue efforts while still suppressing the villains!
"Get everyone to safety!" Shindo yelled at the students who were lagging behind in the process of moving the first aid station, "Hurry! Tell everyone up front to get them as far away from the villains as possible!"
Shindo ran out to meet the faux villains, and Midoriya ran out after him.
"Stay back!" Shindo growled, "There's too many of them, and they have guns! You have a broken leg!"
Midoriya just ignored him. Like he was going to trust anything Shindo said.
"I'll deal with them! I won't let them get any closer!" Shindo snapped, but right as he finished the statement, Sakamata appeared right in front of him.
"Too slow."
Sakamata aimed a concentrated hypersonic wave at Shindo, knocking the teen back. Midoriya had noticed Sakamata's presence and had already evaded, staring at Shindo who was lying on the ground in a daze.
"Only a single rear guard when there's such a difference in ability? You must be underestimating us!" Sakamata growled, as Nakagame ran over to Midoriya to help him with Shindo, "Come on, let's go. Don't worry about them! It's just a test, Gang Orca can't hurt us too badly."
Some of the faux villains ran over to the first aid station as Sakamata lost interest in Shindo, and Sero, Ashido, Ojiro, and Hagakure had just arrived to help carry all the faux victims.
"Hold on." Shindo pushed himself out of Nakagame's hold, and placed his palm to the ground, sending out a vibration and knocking the faux villains off balance, "I'm used to the recoil from my own quirk…. Uh… things are still spinning a bit, though…"
Sakamata leapt in front of Shindo, "You still haven't learnt!?"
Midoriya promptly rushed forward, sweeping downwards and using his momentum to knock Sakamata off balance.
He's too strong physically... I can't take him out like this...
Todoroki appeared on the cliff, blasting Sakamata with ice and taking his attention off Shindo. A strong blast of wind knocked Sakamata off balance, and the killer whale growled, turning around and finding Yoarashi grinning at him. Yoarashi and Todoroki were constantly attempting to attack Sakamata with their quirks, but they just weren't in sync; Yoarashi's wind was blowing Todoroki's fire away, and Todoroki's fire was affecting how Yoarashi's wind moved. Sakamata was barely fazed by the weak attempts.
A mistake from Yoarashi and Todoroki accidentally sent a wave of fire in Shindo's direction, but Midoriya had ran over, and just barely managed to pull the dazed Shindo out of the way of the attack, before trying to drag him out of the way of the fight.
Sakamata roared, and fired off a few hypersonic waves at them, sending them flying, before running after them. Some of Sakamata's men started shooting their cement guns at the downed Yoarashi and Todoroki, forcing them to dodge. They managed to herd Yoarashi into Sakamata's hypersonic waves, and he hit the ground hard, before immobilising Todoroki, letting Sakamata knock him into a daze.
Midoriya growled, and unravelled the cloth around his broken leg, the two pieces of metal rebar falling to the ground; the splint was bulky and severely hindered his movement. His leg was only broken, it wasn't anything major.
Nakagame dragged Shindo away, "Midoriya, what are you doing!? You're injured!"
Midoriya didn't answer, and threw himself at Sakamata's men. Ignoring the pain flaring up his leg, Midoriya easily weaved through all the cement shots that the faux villains were firing at him. He punched one man in the face, before grabbing the cement gun right out of his hands and knocking him off balance, finishing him off with a knee to the gun. He whirled around, using the cement gun as a shield, as he leapt at another faux villain. He didn't really want to use his knives unless it was necessary; it was just an exam, and it wasn't logical for them to want to hurt the examinees severely. The cement guns were there to trap the students; if they really wanted to hurt them, they would be using real guns.
Ojiro had just arrived, and smacked away one of the faux villains, "Midoriya! Your leg is broken! Stop fighting, you'll make it worse!"
"He's not going to listen." Jiro mumbled under her breath, before yelling, "Don't bother about that now! We need to take care of these goons first!"
With Ojiro, Jiro and Midoriya fending off Sakamata's men, the faux villains were barely able to move, having to deal with a ranged fighter and two nimble close ranged fighters. Shinsou had appeared and joined the fight, though his brainwashing quirk didn't seem to be very effective since none of the men replied to his questions, but he was taking care of his fair share of faux villains with his capture weapon. Shindo seemed to have recovered sufficiently from his fight with Sakamata, and was sending out vibrations to throw the faux villains off balance.
It didn't take them too long to defeat all the faux villains in their area, and Yaoyorozu had arrived at just the right time, providing them with long, sturdy rope to tie up Sakamata's men.
Shinsou walked over to Midoriya, supporting him to lessen the strain on his broken leg, before looking towards Sakamata, who was looming over Yoarashi and Todoroki. Neither boy could do anything, being pinned to the ground with cement.
"Dammit. We managed to defeat these, but I don't think we can pass if we don't take out the boss." He cursed, "We're stuck. We need to get them out of there."
"Midoriya." Jiro turned to him. Midoriya gazed at her in confusion, as she nodded at him, "If you have any ideas... just tell us. We'll follow your lead."
She trusts me? They trust me? They'll listen? They don't understand sign language though, and -
Midoriya pulled his hood over his face nervously, his own emotions swirling inside of him, wanting to burst out and swallow him whole.. That wouldn't happened, it couldn't, he was quirkless and useless and no one ever listened to him -
Selfish brat. You're not that important.
But they didn't have a choice. They needed to pass.
Sakamata Kugo. Quirk: Orcinus. Weaknesses -
"Jiro!" Midoriya yelled, "Send some soundwaves at Gang Orca, frequency of two thousand hertz! Make it loud!"
"Got it!" Jiro nodded, promptly adjusting her speakers and plugging her earphone jacks into them, firing off the soundwaves at the killer whale.
Sakamata was about to fire another hypersonic wave at Todoroki, when a piercing screech filled his ears, and he promptly covered his ears in pain.
Todoroki and Yoarashi looked at Sakamata in confusion, when they heard Midoriya's voice, "Yoarashi! Shoto! Combine your powers and trap Gang Orca in a fire tornado; he's a Killer Whale and he's weak to heat! Jiro, cut your attack off!"
Despite barely having any interactions with Midoriya and his amonisity with Todoroki, when Yoarashi heard Midoriya's tone, he couldn't help and just obey. Todoroki and Yoarashi promptly fired off their quirks in perfect synchronisation, engulfing Sakamata in a swirling tornado of fire.
Nakagame and Shindo looked at the column of fire in awe, before Midoriya's eyes glinted. He pulled a knife out, twirling it in his hand, and yelled, "Stop the fire attack!"
Yoarashi and Todoroki immediately cut off the attack, despite their confusion.
"What? That was working though -" Shindo asked, his question cut off as Midoriya flung the knife in Sakamata's direction. They watched as the fire tornado died away, revealing Sakamata who was holding a bottle of water above his head, ready to pour it on himself, before Midoriya's knife made contact with the bottle with deadly accuracy, smacking the bottle away.
Sakamata looked up in confusion, stunned, as Midoriya ordered, "Shoto, Yoarashi, make another fire tornado!"
Yoarashi and Todoroki created another fire column, trapping Sakamata inside, as more of Sakamata's men ran over, firing their cement guns at the students. Yaoyorozu quickly created a shield to block the cement shots, before Shinsou sent out a vibration, cursing, "Shit, there's more of them!"
"Hagakure! Aoyama! Blind them, then go to Gang Orca! Jiro, when Orca destroys the fire column, blast him with more soundwaves until you see a bright light." Midoriya yelled while signing something to Shinsou. Shinsou paused, and nodded, speeding off as Aoyama fired his laser at Hagakure. Hagakure immediately refracted the the laser, blinding the faux villains, giving Shinsou ample time to slip past them and make his way towards Sakamata, Aoyama and Hagakure following behind him.
"You have a plan?" Nakagame asked, and Midoriya nodded, not even looking at her, "Five minutes, maximum."
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean - " Shindo didn't even get to finish his statement as Midoriya leapt out towards the faux villains, slicing through them like a hot knife through butter.
"Alright. Understand?" Shinsou asked, and Hagakure and Aoyama nodded. The plan was simple, but it would be effective. Based on the reactions of Sakamata's men to his questions, Shinsou was pretty sure that they were all aware what his quirk was.
Midoriya must have noticed it too, because he had told Shinsou to use his voice changer to sound like one of faux villains, and to get Hagakure and Aoyama to blind Sakamata to prevent him from seeing Shinsou's identity. Shinsou's quirk was the fastest way to take Sakamata down, but there was no way Sakamata would respond to Shinsou willingly, especially if he knew what his quirk was.
Sakamata finally managed to muster up enough energy to blast out another hypersonic wave, tearing the fire column apart, but that was when Jiro struck. She blasted Sakamata with more soundwaves that the students themselves could barely detect, but Sakamata, being a killer whale, could hear loud and clear.
Sakamata roared, covering his ears, trying to detect the source of the sound when Hagakure and Aoyama jumped in, Hagalure refracting Aoyama's laser and concentrating it on Sakamata so that only the pro hero would be blinded.
Jiro immediately stopped her attack, and Shinsou put on his voice changer, and walked towards Sakamata.
"Sir? Are you alright?" Shinsou asked, ad Sakamata tried to clear the ringing in his ears and blink the spots out of his eyes, absentmindedly replying, "Yeah, I'm fine. We -"
Shinsou smirked, and activated his quirk as Sakamata's eyes went blank.
"Now go to sleep." Shinsou ordered, as Sakamata promptly collapsed, completely passed out.
"Uh, this may seem arbitrary, but all the HUC deployed have been rescued in some form or another, obviously still alive. With this, all provisional licence exam procedures have been completed. After we tally the scores, we will announce the results here. Those who are injured should go to the infirmary. The rest of you should change and be on standby."
The faux villains immediately stopped firing at the examinees, as Yaoyorozu lowered her shields in confusion, "It's over?"
"I think so..." Nakagame muttered, "They stopped firing at us."
Midoriya took a deep breath, trying to quell the panic that was rising up from his stomach. He had been terrified, terrified of the entire Kamino Simulation, terrified that no one would listen to him, terrified that Sakamata would injure his classmates, terrified that they would all fail.
It's all over now.
Shinsou and Mora immediately set to work, freeing Yoarashi and Todoroki from the cement.
Suddenly, the feeling in his gut blazed to life, and Midoriya looked down, a chill running down his spine.
Toga was standing right there, at the bottom of the cliff, some greyish liquid at her feet, as a portal opened right behind her. Sako, Hikiishi and Bubaigawara stepped through, before Hikiishi declared, "Finally. The exam is over. We're going to kill one of the top ten pro heroes in Japan, right in front of everyone!"
"Midoriya actually spoke up." Fukukado mused, as Aizawa sighed, "He doesn't like talking, but in order to pass... I think he's trying his best to help everyone pass."
"He's interesting... That's for sure." Sasaki mumbled, watching as Shinsou, Aoyama and Hagakure ran out to fend of Sakamata, "But he does know Orca's strengths and weaknesses. Using hypersonic waves and fire to counter him, as well as preventing him from rehydrating, is smart. Being able to aim at the bottle through the fire, and be able to hit it, especially from that distance, is pretty impressive."
Mera finally announced the end of the exam, when suddenly, thick glass walls rose up, separating the arena from the spectator's stand, and everyone leaned forwards in confusion, trying to figure out what was going on.
Sasaki's sharp eyes caught onto a familiar blonde, and he mumbled, "She's right there. Toga Himiko."
"Midoriya was right..." Fukukado hissed, as she noticed the portal and the three villains that stepped out of it, "The League! We should go help them!"
Aizawa stood up, and was about to find the exit to go deal with the villains when all the doors suddenly shut.
He growled, "Dammit. They must have added these emergency features to protect civilians, but we can't get out now."
"It seems like there is a villain attack. All teachers in the stands, please stand back and let Gang Orca handle this. We have gotten into contact with the Hero Commission, and this is the course of action that they have decided on while waiting for other heroes to arrive."
"Does Mera not know that Orca is unconscious? And that there are heroes in the stands?" Fukukado grumbled.
"I can slip through the walls." Togata suggested, but Sasaki shook his head.
"But-" Togata tried to argue, and Sasaki sent him a sharp glare, "It's not like I don't want you to help. But this is a direct order from the Hero Commission, and as my intern, it's my responsibility to prevent you from getting into any trouble with the Commission."
Sasaki turned back to the arena, where the League was standing, "We'll just have to wait."
Midoriya took a step back, his entire body trembling slightly.
No no no... why are they here?!
He noticed that Toga had pulled out a knife, and was aiming it at the downed Sakamata.
I can't let anyone get hurt...
Before he knew it, Midoriya leapt down from his position on the cliff, whipping out another knife and deflecting the one that Toga had thrown.
Toga blinked in surprise as her knife was smacked away, and she looked up, only to find that Midoriya had landed, a knife in his hand, glaring coldly at them.
"Oh! It's Izu-kun!" Toga happily chirped, gaining the attention of the three other villains. Midoriya forced himself not to flinch as she smiled at him, her canines glinting maliciously as she took out another knife, and he tried to push all his memories to the back of his head.
Hikiishi narrowed her eyes warily at Midoriya, and raised her oversized magnet. The knife on the ground that Midoriya had deflected started shaking, and Hikiishi growled, "You're here?"
Midoriya let out a low growl in warning, as Sako raised his hands and Bubaigawara whipped out his measuring tape. Hikishi growled, "Forget about the pro. This kid's more of a threat! This time, we'll kill you for real!"
